After a farewell from my home of the last five years, 40 dates on the road with Electric Jellyfish, and a resettlement to San Francisco, I’m popping my head up for a solo show on July 27th at the Elbo Room—my first in SF in over 2 years. This will be the last show before I head up to Portland to record, and I’ll be testing out some new tunes alongside songs from Blood Courses. Joining me on the night will be The Spyrals, who played and epic show with Electric Jellyfish on the last tour, and another band to be announced. This will be only show for the next couple of months, so don’t miss it! Here’s a link to the facebook invite.
I’ll also be doing a live-to-air set and interview at 5pm, Saturday, July 17th on Pirate Cat radio (87.9 FM in San Francisco, or broadcast on the net at http://www.piratecatradio.com/listen.php.
After five years of struggling to keep his Australian residency, and a lack of practical options to sustain it any longer, Michael Beach has regretfully decided to return to America.
Immigrating to Australia in late 2005, Beach founded Electric Jellyfish with Adam Camilleri, Hayden Sweeney, and Patrick Lias, and since that time the band has toured Australia and America twice, and released four EPs, one of which (The Woods)was pressed in America by Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Yod label. In 2008, Beach released his debut solo album, Blood Courses, to critical acclaim and toured both America (2008) and Australia (2009). Electric Jellyfish will return to the USA this March (with new drummer Peter Warden) for their third tour, but Michael Beach will remain in America when the tour ends. There he plans to tour extensively, commence work on a sophomore solo album, and plans to tour Australia as soon as possible. Electric Jellyfish will release a new EP in March, and will continue to play together whenever they are in the same country.
Michael Beach plays his final Australian solo show for 2010 Friday, February 12th at The Old Bar in Melbourne with Ninety Nine, Do The Robot, and East Brunswick All Girls Choir (solo).
If you didn’t get a chance to listen to the interview on PBS live, you can listen to a recording of it here. Listen to the new track, “A Horse” below or download the full interview, including a performance of “One Foot in Front of the Other.”
Tune in to the Michael Beach live to air on PBS Melbourne today, November 9th, at 3:20. 106.7 for those in Melbs or http://www.pbsfm.org.au/public/playerVer/player.asp for anywhere else. Tour finale at The Empress in Melbourne on Friday!!
Hey all. Unfortunately Des Miller is no longer able to play the Sydney show on Oct 14 at Spectrum. Replacing him will be The Maple Trail solo. Check out www.myspace.com/themapletrail. Great Stuff!
Due to the closure of the Hopetoun Hotel, the Friday Oct 2 Sydney tour opener has been moved to the Bald Faced Stag Hotel. The address is 345 PARRAMATTA RD, LEICHHARDT.
